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Martide blog posts about maritime crew management including how to keep crews happy and productive, strengthen retention and build better working relationships.

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How to Choose Crew Management Software: 12 Questions to Ask Before You Buy

It's easy to be distracted by impressive-looking features during a software demo. But if those features don't solve your problems, they're not very useful.

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Crew Management Software vs Spreadsheets: Which is Right for Your Company?

Spreadsheets are familiar, flexible, relatively cheap and everyone knows how to use them. But could you work smarter with maritime crew management software?

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10 Signs You've Outgrown Spreadsheet Crew Management

There comes a point when a spreadsheet stops making life easier and starts creating more work. And it could be costing your company more than you think.

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Why Spreadsheet Crew Management Is Costing Your Company More Than You Think

Spreadsheets are familiar and flexible. But they can be unwieldly when you're dealing with lots of data. Even worse, they could cost you more than you think!

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AI in Crew Management Practical Uses (Without Replacing People)

Despite some of the dramatic predictions surrounding AI, its most useful role isn’t replacing people; it's helping them. Here's how AI can benefit Crew Manager.

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Safety at Sea Starts on Shore: A Guide for Maritime Employers

How can you, as a maritime employer, ensure your crews are not only safe while onboard your ships but healthy too? Use our checklist to find out.

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How Maritime Employers Can Build Onboarding Packets That Prepare Crews for Success

Maritime employers play a critical role in shaping a seafarer's first experience with a vessel. And that's where onboarding packets come in.

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How Crew Managers Can Create Happier Ships: A Checklist

As a Crew Manager, how can you make your commercial ships happier, safer and more productive workplaces? Read our blog which includes a checklist.

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How to Improve Company Culture in the Maritime Industry

What is company culture, does your maritime industry organization have a good one, and if not, how can you improve it? Read this and find out.

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How to Look After Employee & Crew Mental Wellbeing

From high risk seafarer jobs to long hours at a desk, employees in the maritime industry can be vulnerable to mental health issues. Learn more.

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What is the Best Crew Management Software Solution?

Want to know the best crew management software to help you run your maritime recruitment and crew planning ops more efficiently? Find out here.

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How Crew Managers Can Deal with Language Barriers in 2025

Crew management can be tricky due to language barriers. Read Martide's tips for Crew Managers to help stop any lost in translation issues!

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5 Essential Communication Tips for the Maritime Industry

Read our 5 handy tips that explain how to avoid miscommunications and issues with coworkers and crew through better, clearer communication.

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14 New Year's Resolutions for Maritime Industry People

Whether you're a Crew Manager, Recruitment Officer or you work in a maritime job at sea, there's no time like New Year to plan for the year ahead

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10 Tips for Onboarding Seafarers in Maritime Recruitment

Are your Recruitment Officers, Crew Managers and Heads of Department onboarding your new seafarers properly? Read our blog to find out.

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World Day for Safety & Health at Work: Supporting Seafarers

As World Day for Safety and Health at Work approaches, are you doing everything you can to support your seafarers? Read on to find out more.

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Why Is It Free for Maritime Recruiters to Post Jobs on Martide?

Want to know how Martide makes money even though we make maritime recruitment free for Crew Managers & Manning Agents? We tell you the secret here!

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How to Communicate with Your Remote Teams & Offshore Crew

How do you communicate with teams as someone working in maritime recruitment or crew planning when people and issues are geographically all over the place?

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How Crewing Software Can Increase Retention Rates

Is crew retention an issue in your small to mid sized shipping company? Do you struggle to fill seafarer jobs and hold on to seamen once the contract is over? If the crew you hire are defecting to your competitors you have a problem. One way to solve that is to implement a crewing software solution.

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Why Great Communication is Essential for Crew Retention

If you're struggling to retain seafarers at the end of contracts there's an issue with your crew retention strategy. So how do you stop crew jumping ship?

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4 Benefits Applicants Actually Want (Tip: It's Not Always Money)

You need to attract and retain as many seafarers as possible. We look at a few benefits you can offer to appeal to recruits to offset potential shortages.

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9 Crew Retention Strategies to Stop Seafarers Jumping Ship

Attracting good seafarers during your maritime recruitment ops is one thing. Keeping them is another! Here's 9 crew retention strategies to help.

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Why Listening is Vital for Crew Retention

Retention issues are stressful! Here's why listening to your seafarers is a crucial tool in the war against crew members who vanish at the end of a contract.

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How Transparency Can Improve Your Crew Retention Rates

If you can create more honest engagement with the seafarers who apply for your jobs, you’ll increase the chances of them remaining loyal to your company.

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How to Boost Crew Retention with Tolerance & Diversity

It's no secret many shipping companies struggle with employee and crew retention. So what can be done to tackle this? It’s time to think about diversity.